Here Are The Most Torrented TV Shows And Movies By State

Over at Movoto, they have a bunch of neat maps that show which states are torrenting the most (the GUVMENT knows you’re downloading old episodes of Kojak, Florida), and what they’re torrenting. They “collected data about the location of seeding nodes for the top 300 most popular torrents, segmented across movies, television, and PC gaming,” which is a fancy way of saying Game of Thrones is really popular. It’s the most torrented show in 15 states — in second place, Penny Dreadful with seven.

Here’s the TV map.

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And the one for movies.

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The runner-up film for every state: just the sex scene from 300: Rise of an Empire. What can I say? America loves Eva Green’s awesome boobs, especially when they’re free.

On behalf of the entire Commonwealth of Virginia I would like to sincerely apologize. I assure you I have not watched a single episode of that drek, but I got a sad gut feeling that all the dls are from my upsettingly milquetoast native area of Northern Virginia.

I don’t quite understand how this data aligns with the state popularity.

Supposedly, the most torrented show in New York State is Beauty and the Beast, but that only has one episode on the full data list, with a count of 104 and per capita of 0.0529, while Game of Thrones has 19 separate instances on their list, the highest ranking of which has a count of 318 and a per capita of 0.1618

How can they say that Beauty and the Beast is a more heavily torrented TV show in the state of New York, when their own data set says something entirely different.